Method of producing effects similar to embroidery on textiles by painting



Patented June 3, 1924.

ANTONIO RVOSSATI, OF VENEDIG, ITALY.

METHOD or PRODUCING EFFECTS SIMILAR To EMBROIDERY 0N TEXTILES BY PAINTING.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTONIO Rossarr, a citizen of the Kingdom of Italy, residing at Venedig (Venice), Italy, have lnvented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Producing Effects Similar to Embroidery on Textiles by Painting, of which the following is a specification.

Simple painting in the ordinary manner employed in the making of pictures cannot be applied to textile fabrics except such as are specially adapted thereto, but not to fabrics in general, particularly to very fine tulles on the one hand and heavy woollens on the other. Moreover, the usual kind of painting has the additional drawback that it cannot be used in the case of fabrics in which folds occur, such, for example, as those used in the clothing industry.

In order to obviate these drawbacks, it has been proposed to supplement painting by applying the colours in the form of dots, that is to say, to form the surfaces and lines to be produced of dots arranged correspondingly close together.

In place of these dots, the present invention employs lines, such lines being in the form of the finest imaginable strokes, ar ranged side by side as in embroidering. In this manner, ornaments and other decorative effects can be produced on any fabric from the finest chiffon or silk tulle to the thickest woollen material, on silk, velvet, cloth, felt and so on. While the colour is'still moist, the painted design is topped with silk dust or wool dust, thus producing the complete impression of an otherwise technically unobtainable silk or wool embroidery, the op eration moreover being performed in a much quicker and cheaper way than by broidering. It is thus possible to provide, even very thin fabrics like chiffon or silk with a decoration exactly similar to embroidery, whereas broidering such materials has hitherto been extremely difficult, and in some cases technically impracticable. The fabric is so easily torn in the operation, and rich ornamentations cannot be embroidered at all, the fabric becoming too heavy to be used for certain purposes, such as clothing. Similarly, even very thick fabrics can be painted Serial NO. 549,904.

by the method of the present invention, in a manner that is deceptively similar to embroidery.

In contrast to paintings with broader strokes, a distinctive feature of the new method is that it may break at any place without destroying the appearance of the whole, and consequently the method is suitable for application to fabrics of any kind, particularly those employed in the clothing industry, curtains, wall hangings, bed covers.

In painting on chiffon three or four superimposed layers can be decorated with the same pattern at the one time, so that the painting can be carried out much more quickly, and therefore more cheaply, than by any of the methods hitherto known. In place of silk powder or wool powder, other suitable materials, in a fine or coarse state, may also be used, according to any particular effect desiredfor example, wood, paper, glass, phosphorus, metal, bronze powder in particular, mother-of-pearl, feathers and the like. The use of bronze powder in the method according to the invention has the advantage of giving a permanent painting, inasmuch as, in contrast to the known methods the metal does not oxidize. This permanence also enables paintings of this kind to be produced on Valuable fabrics on an industrial scale.

The method according to the present invention can also be combined with other methods and measures for the treatment of fabrics, thus increasing the diversification of the effect.

The colour or varnish to be used is mixed, if necessary with chemicals imparting the desired penetrative capacity. With this colour the design is drawn with a brush, stroke by stroke, in the same way as the threads are placed side by side in broidering. While the colour is still wet, it is dusted over with the topping material, and the non-adherent portions are blown away. The process is completed by drying.

I claim,

1. The process for the production of embroidery imitations on cloths of all kinds, consisting in drawing the desired outline on the cloth in one or more lines of the finest character with cohesive material, and then covering these lines by dusting embroidery material as Wool, silk, or the like thereon.

2. The process for the production of embroidery imitations on cloths of all kinds, consisting in drawing the desired outline on the cloth in points of the finest character with cohesive material, and then covering these lines by dusting embroidery material 10 as Wool, silk, or the like thereon.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ROSSATI, ANTONIO, /Vitnesses:

JOHN FRANKLIN DEMING, MA'riLDE HALEsTo. 

